• You can't help but admire the nerve of the London Boroughs Transport Committee. This non-elected body, which issues permits...

• The Department of Transport has confirmed that LGVs, including artics, with a gross weight over 16 tonnes and plated to tow...

• United Road Transport Union general secretary Frank Griffin has issued a writ against his own union and four of its executive...

• TNT is appealing against an industrial tribunal decision to award 13 former employees £80,000 compensation after they were...

• A report out this week says that customers in the UK do not demand such high distribution service standards as their...

• Operators may find it harder to appeal against permit refusals or conditions imposed under the crumbling London Lorry Ban,...

• Four months after it became law, Joan Ruddock's much-publicised vehicle seizure Act has failed to bring a single fly-tipper...

• Yorkshire hauliers hoping to gain from British Steel's decision to switch 9,000 tonnes of limestone a week from rail to road...

• When owner-driver Rod Larkin found himself at Irun on the French/Spanish border without the necessary permit to continue his...

• Details are emerging of the hi-tech security checks which truck drivers will face at the Channel Tunnel. Eurotunnel has...

• European transport commissioner Karel van Miert has warned that hauliers may have to pay more for the damage their trucks do...

• Cardiff traffic officers are cracking down on the influx of illegal tipper operators in the city. Cardiff Bay, the former...

• Schmitz Trailers of Germany has designed a semi-trailer which exploits a loophole in the turning circle regulations governing...

MI Two trucks were recalled by the Vehicle Inspectorate in the second half of last year: AWD's TL814 and Mercedes' 1621....

• Drivers of notifiable abnormal loads are to be exempt from the drivers' hours law. The European Commission has granted UK...

• Volvo is offering a version of its FL6 4x2 tractor with an enlarged sleeper cab, but it is unlikely to be launched in Europe....

▪ As revealed by CM, Daf is experimenting with turbocompound versions of its forthcoming big-block truck engine, and has...

• Ceejay Systems is building three wreckers for a firm in Kuwait City using Toyota PZF 75 heavy-duty Land Cruiser chassis and...

I Emissions regulations have led to a further development in the complicated engine choice in the Fiat/Peugeot/Citroen Sevel...

• NFC admitted this week that it will struggle to achieve fullyear profits of £90-2,100m on a worldwide turnover of...

• A long-term business plan aimed at further separating Parcelforce from the Royal Mail is about to be launched. The...

• Wincanton Vehicle Management has taken over the running of Stoke-on-Trent-based contract hire firm, Intertrail, which has a...

• A group of independent skip hauliers are canvassing firms across the country to gather evidence of unfair practices by local...

• Southern tippermen working for RMC subsidiary Hall Aggregates face a rates cut with Hall claiming "the recession has finally...

• The Ballyvesey group, which manufactures trailers at its Craven Tasker and Montracon factories, has established a spare parts...

• US truck manufacturer Navistar has reported a first quarter loss of $32m (g18.2m) and says it does not expect its results to...

• US express haulage company Roberts Express plans to start UK operations early next year. Its European division, established...

• Insolvent haulier Richard Clark and his wife Susan face losing their house, but are urging creditors not to make them...

• Burscoughbased Anthony Bridge, trading as Doyen Transport, received a public apology from North Western Licensing Authority...

oF - 4 !Oki • Two brothers were given three days' notice to get their vehicles through MoT tests or have their licence...

• A driver and his employer were fined E650 for drivers' hours and tachograph offences after Abergavenny magistrates rejected...

• Prestonbased farm haulier Richard Shorrock has had the authorisation on his licence increased from five to six vehicles at a...

• Bradfordbased haulier Paul Clayton and four of his drivers were ordered to pay fines and costs totalling £1,625 after...

• Volvo Bus is planning to offer its 9.6-litre engine in the Olympian double-deck bus chassis, probably when production moves...

• The receiver of National Welsh has closed two of the company's three remaining depots — it has been trying to sell since it...

• The receiver has moved into Maidstone Boro'line. Talks with up to 30 potential purchasers have fallen through during the past...

• Dennis is offering an alternative Voith transmision for its Dart midi chassis which is claimed to increase fuel economy and...

• The first 4x4 version of the 14-month-old German-built Clubstar has gone into service with Dusseldorf-based Maple Leaf...

TRAINING H auliers have once again been left with hardly any time to comply with new legislation. From 1 July drivers of...

P e1,0 %.# with a conventional mechanical link between the gear lever and gearbox. Instead a small selector lever in the cab...

has not been a significant restraint on sales: 'Even rental companies accept it for contract customers,' says Sullivan. "We are...

• Over the past year the UK road haulage industry has displayed a commendable mixture of courage and compassion. Truck loads of...

ALBANIA 1 transit was being negotiated. One driver joined the convoy with only a visitor's passport, he claims. Although Van...

• It's a fact of life that distribution contracts change hands. An operator proposes a better deal than the existing haulier...

far reaching I Victor Ross believes that NFC's interpretation of the regulations is in line with the original purpose of the...

NCS • Peter Nickell had been a driver for 25 years and an owner-driver for four years when the Driver Vehicle Licencing Agency...

• Ivan Chubbock (CM 6-12 Feb) questions the practicality of working within BS 5750 while continuing to offer a 24-hour recovery...

competition page (CM 19-26 Dec 1991). At last the winners can be revealed, plucked by the Hawk's glamorous assistant, Betty,...

authority in Wales services its 1902 cable tramcar system, which provides the holiday resort of Llandudno with a novel public...

Ei hose who caught the competition bug following the Hawk's Christmas special have the chance to win a copy of Classic Hauliers...